I agree, it can be a bit too long. If I had to pick I would shorten it on the front end and start later. A lot of teams run into problems with their football team making deep runs into the playoffs and since football and wrestling share a lot of athletes that is where I would do it. This year our football team made it to the title game (which was the same weekend as the opening weekend of Wrestling). Then kids need to get into "wrestling shape" and by then your already a month into your regular season. I had to pull my guy from the Iron Man this year because I didn't think a week and half would give him enough time to heal and be prepared for that high level of a tourney after his football season just ended.